<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dear all,<br><br>I am pleased to announce the release of CMPL 1.8.0 .<div><br></div><div><b>New features and change log</b></div><div><b> </b></div><div><div><div>pyCMPL and CMPLServer<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>pyCMPL is the CMPL API for Python and an interactive shell. </div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>The main idea of this API is to define sets and parameters within the user</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>application, to start and control the solving process and to read the solution(s) </div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>into the application if the problem is feasible. All variables, objective </div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>functions and constraints are defined in CMPL. </div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>These functionalities can be used with a local CMPL installation or a CMPLServer.</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>CMPLServer is an XML-RPC-based web service for distributed optimization.</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>It is reasonable to solve large models remotely on the CMPLServer that is </div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>installed on a high performance system. pyCMPL provides a client API for </div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>CMPLServer. CMPL provides three XML-based file formats for the communication </div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>between a CMPLServer and its clients. (CmplInstance, CmplSolutions, CmplMessages)</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>pyCMPL and CMPLServer are an open source projects licensed under LGPLv3 and </div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>available for most of the relevant operating systems (Windows, OS X and Linux)</div><div><br></div><div>New CMPL command line arguments</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>-interRelaxation - All integer variables are changed to continuous variables</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>-alias - uses an alias name for the cmpl model</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>-solution [filename] - optimization results in CmplSolutions XML format </div><div><br></div><div>Changed CMPL command line argument</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>-gn - turns matrix reductions on (default off) </div><div><br></div><div>New display options </div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>-ignoreVars - Ignores all variables in the solution reports</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>-ignorevars - Ignores all constraints in the solution reports</div><div><br></div><div>MPrL XML format is changed into the CmplMessages XML format (CMPL does not longer support MPrL)</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span></div><div>New solution XML format CmplSolutions </div><div><br></div><div>Bug fixing</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>A bug for readcsv() that only appeared under Windows is fixed.</div></div></div><div><br></div><div><div><div><b>Binaries</b></div><div>The Binaries are available at <a href="http://www.coliop.org/download.html">www.coliop.org/download.html</a>.<br><br><b>Source code</b><br>is obtained by checking out the source code using a subversion client.<br><div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span> svn co <a href="https://projects.coin-or.org/svn/Cmpl/releases/1.8.0">https://projects.coin-or.org/svn/Cmpl/releases/1.8.0</a> CMPL</div></div><div><br></div><div><b>Mailing list and support</b></div><div>If you are interested to get a direct support, to post bugs or to communicate wishes then please use our CMPL mailing list hosted at COIN-OR <a href="http://list.coin-or.org/mailman/listinfo/Cmpl">http://list.coin-or.org/mailman/listinfo/Cmpl</a></div><div><br></div><div>For more information please visit <a href="http://www.coliop.org/">www.coliop.org</a> and <a href="http://projects.coin-or.org/Cmpl">projects.coin-or.org/Cmpl</a>.</div></div></div><div><br></div><div><b>EURO/INFORMS conference 2013</b></div><div>If you plan to attend the XXVI EURO - INFORMS Joint International Conference in Rom then I would like to invite you to a talk about pyCMPL and CMPLServer next Tuesday (02 July 2013, 12:30-14:00, TC-56 - </div><div>Optimization Modeling II - Room B15-3). </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Cheers</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Mike Steglich</div>_______________________________________________<br>Cmpl mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Cmpl@list.coin-or.org">Cmpl@list.coin-or.org</a><br><a href="http://list.coin-or.org/mailman/listinfo/cmpl">http://list.coin-or.org/mailman/listinfo/cmpl</a></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>Cmpl mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Cmpl@list.coin-or.org">Cmpl@list.coin-or.org</a><br><a href="http://list.coin-or.org/mailman/listinfo/cmpl">http://list.coin-or.org/mailman/listinfo/cmpl</a><div><br></div></body></html>